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Painting by Sen Ming Hu from Eaglebrook School, Massachusetts, USA Painting by Sen Ming Hu from Eaglebrook School, Massachusetts, USA Artist Statement: My artwork explores the essence of peace through the profound interconnectedness between humanity and the natural world. Inspired by the visual language of traditional indigenous dot painting, the piece captures a serene twilight where three figures sit in quiet contemplation, gazing at a setting sun. Below the surface, an in

Written by Yuze Zhu from St. George's School, Rhode Island, USA In 2022, the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine War marked the start of a new era of warfare technology. The term “drone warfare” was suddenly seen in headlines about this conflict in publications across the world. Inexpensive small drones went from being used by civilians for taking pictures and bringing pleasure to being transformed into mass-produced killing machines. Yet new technology brings new pollution and w

Written by Iris Zhu from Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts, USA I am woken by the grey that muffles the sky. On my bedside the candle burns white as light– melting, melting; its supple wax, like sweat dried into salt turns an opaque, rigor mortis stiff. The great huffing and puffing of man, it curls like a sigh of frost seeping over a morning meadow– out from the esophagus of metal organs, out into the miserable evening stretched against night. It licks gilded, gum-sticky hand

Written by Angela Du from New York City, USA ocean— keeper of the unwanteds mother of salt swallowed light whole cities of coral bleached white— brittle as ribs current, i command you carry bottle caps; treat them as pearls. somewhere beneath the atlantic. metal rusts into the reef. iron hits my tongue. rain gathers pulling itself inland. the ocean keeps giving. & even now salt in our blood waves folding themselves. endlessly giving but we keep ta